by Ellee Seymour | Jan 11, 2008 | updates
I love surprising people, and yesterday I surprised my 17-year-old son David by collecting him from the railway station after school with L plates on my car. He was to drive home. David couldn’t wait to get behind the wheel. We zig-zagged around the car park a...
by Ellee Seymour | Jan 10, 2008 | updates
Banning plastic bags is one of my pet subjects, a topic close to my heart after researching and writing an academic paper on this subject. So I’m delighted to read that China, a great provider of plastic goods, is in fact banning free plastic bags, those horrid,...
by Ellee Seymour | Jan 10, 2008 | updates
I hope I don’t get any unexpected visitors over the next day or two. My cleaning lady has given up the mop for a new job and it has left me in a bit of a dither. Pat helped me out for four years and became a friend, and before that Nicky took care of my domestic...
by Ellee Seymour | Jan 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here’s one for Burning Our Money. The number of Defra staff earning more than £100,000 has trebled in the past five years. This cannot surely be linked to their performance as it struggles with waste and recycling, climate change, floods, coastal erosion,...
by Ellee Seymour | Jan 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
Crikey, what an amazing result following pollsters’ predictions of another sweeping victory for Democrat Barack Obama in New Hampshire. He seemed a dead cert to win ahead of rival Hillary Clinton, but virtually all of the late polling on the Democratic side...
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